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Music Makes the UBC 'Laptop Orchestra' Move

Ever wondered how your body could become a musical instrument? Over the last few months, 17 students from UBC Arts, Science and Engineering took a crack at that question.

Members of the the university's Laptop Orchestra, a music technology course run by UBC Professor Bob Pritchard, they designed projects that use body movements to trigger programmed synthetic instruments or modify the sound of live instruments in real-time.